Dorothy L. Sayers

Presents the classical epic, glorifying the heroism of Charlemagne in the 778 battle between the Franks and the Moors. The Song of Roland, as Dorothy Sayers remarks in the introduction to this fine translation, is 'the earliest, the most famous, and the greatest of those Old French epics which are called Songs of Deeds'. Writing around the end of the eleventh century, and recalling an actual disaster in 778, the anonymous poet describes in detail...